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This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...
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I hate you, please go away. (Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
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All the terrible stuff in the news lately has got us down. And no one understands a...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
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Not your typical presidential portrait
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via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
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As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
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This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
Known as "the Little Magician"
Etch a sketch
Bully!
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...
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Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
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Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...
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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
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Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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rycz: “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock...
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Careful, might make you howl!
President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
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Step into the 19th century French cafe for a sip of the green fairy this...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
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In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the Smithsonian...
George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart at the National Portrait...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
Never forget
Hippest place in Brighton
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
Considerable collections
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Those Swiss have got it all!
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
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The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!
Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...
USA's very first art school and museum
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place
Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus by Maerten van Heemskerck at the Museum of Art...
Take that Uncle Sam!
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
Saved in times of war
Melania Trump's five-day, four country solo trip came to an end on Sunday...
The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Our awesome website has a magnifying view for each and every image we’ve added and...
Buy now on Taschen
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium
Back Seat Dodge ‘38 by Edward Kienholz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Modern Art Mexico
Baseball at Night by Morris Kantor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian at the The National Gallery (London)
The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Fogg Museum
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
Faulty Landscape (Paysage Fautif) by Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at the Harry...
Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum
(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
Leap Into the Void by Yves Klein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
Negev by Magdalena Abakanowicz at The Israel Museum
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
In the beginning, there was darkness… Tohubohu, according to the Merriam-...
Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur
Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg
Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh Pronunciation: /tro͞oˈvī/ Lauren helps...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Woman Dressed as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffman
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA
Fort Worth a trip
Expanded in 2016!
Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows
Underground in the City of Angels
Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!
Yes...they "borrowed" the art
Poop in style while you enjoy art
Cheers to the gov'na!
Not for during rush hour
The first permanent art gallery in New Zealand!
Not made of crystals
Way better than the Old Britain museum
Come one, come all
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger Pronunciation: /cag-...
Mao Tse-Tung No. 4 by Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Australia...
A Little Taste Outside of Love by Mickalene Thomas at the Brooklyn Museum
Pronunciation: /ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child by Bronzino at the Uffizi...
Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh at the Neue Pinakothek
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Former tobacco plantation
Built by Bernini and Borromini
SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.
Just a little touch of star quality
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Does Satine take paintings as payment or just diamonds? Nicole Kidman was...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash
Brought to you by your favorite skin cream
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Here the Renaissance-turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) enjoy...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has welcomed...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
We love you BoJack!BoJack Horseman is the best show on Netflix right now and season...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Their first curator added much of his own work
If you want to get an eye-catching art history inspired tattoo, look no...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Not just a bunch of books
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Happy holidaze! What better date than 4/20 to launch our new “Stoners” category!? ...
The setting for Kubrick's next film
The Latin LACMA
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
